Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Do you ever wish you 'd farmed rather than going in for horses ? ’ |
2 | Hurrying out with his little band through the inner and outer baileys , at the gatehouse their guards told them that they had heard rather than seen the Regent 's force riding between castle and town some time before . |
3 | He began to realize , too , what hardship she had suffered rather than ask his family for money . |
4 | Children from homes where parents took little interest in education had suffered rather than benefited from its introduction , he added . |
5 | Mr Blum tried his supporters saying they had done better than predicted . |
6 | And obviously she had done more than hold her own . |
7 | Then she had found out about the baby and realised the truth — that they had done more than draw comfort from each other as mere friends . |
8 | It was neither homely nor luxurious and Charlotte doubted if Maurice had done more than visit to check the mail in recent months . |
9 | Fifty miles north , Sarah Morgan had just finished serving a lunch that no one had done more than pick at . |
10 | Doctor Braby , hard-worked GP and police surgeon to the district , had done more than confirm the fact of death on this occasion , he had called immediate attention to certain peculiarities about the body , and boldly essayed a guess at the length of time it had actually been in the water . |
11 | The tall , blond player who had joined West Ham at the tender of age of 17 some four years earlier , had done more than choose the right moment to emerge , he 'd nicely anticipated the coming of the right man , Alf Ramsey , who took over the England management shortly afterwards and began to forge the national side which would win the World Cup in 1966 and in which Moore would play an anchor role . |
12 | Lying on the bed she had dozed rather than slept . |
13 | It was something she had felt rather than known logically . |
14 | Like the Dragoons on the pasture , Ziegler had retreated rather than face unequal odds . |
15 | When the initial grief of the desertion had passed she had known better than to mention her father 's name . |
16 | She had thought longingly of the candle left behind in Guy 's chamber , but had known better than to mention it . |
17 | So , after a time , she began to think — when he was so collectedly friendly — that she had imagined more than had really happened , or had imagined it all . |
18 | Since typing had taken longer than anticipated the booklet would not appear until the end of December . |
19 | A spokesman said they had been overwhelmed by the number of applications when the new disability living benefit was announced and said it had taken longer than anticipated to sort out . |
20 | She said the notice was very detailed and it had taken longer than expected to draw up . |
21 | Inevitably this procedure , in the early years , worked less than smoothly , with budgets drawn up hurriedly under the pressure of reorganisation , and the Ministry being quite glad on occasion if they were exceeded , since this simply meant that the industry had achieved more than expected with limited physical resources . |
22 | Its somewhat sketchy character suggests , in fact , that his main purpose was simply to finish what he had begun rather than to give urgent or forceful expression to his views . |
23 | But even then , she had listened rather than talked back . |
24 | She had been born blind and her disability had enriched rather than restricted her life . |